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CAC · Atelier | Plan C: Using technology to practice empathy during Covid-19

cacTuesday May 25th, 2021Tuesday May 25th, 2021

Date：

2021.05.29（Saturday）

Time：

14:00 - 17:00

Led by：

Gabriele Ermacora, Jiji Yu

Language：

English

Address：

Chronus Art Center, Building No.18, No.50 Moganshan Rd

Co-organized with

Xinchejian

Supported by

Mustardtek

Admission Fee:

Workshop 180RMB

CAC/CAC/Xinchejian Member 145RMB

*To purchase CAC membership, please visit CAC online store or inquire at the reception at CAC.

Only 15 seats available,

please scan the QR code to book a ticket.

During this high-technology hands-on activity, we will use our daily life post-pandemic scenario (wearing mask, temperature check, showing QR codes etc) and activities designed to practice empathy and review the whole design cycle.

This course will explore the possibilities that technology provides us to face challenging times like the ones of the pandemy. During these challenging times, the Covid-19 virus outbreak has shaken the paradigms of our society, imposing social distancing and confinement to billions of people. Plan C is an initiative to put creative minds to think solutions that would provide relief to issues brought by the pandemy. We will focus on the mental and physical challenges we are facing as a society, bringing awareness to issues related to our environment and the wellness of our most vulnerable members.

The participants will be introduced to Arduino and interactive applications to apply to the practical case of a face mask. The event will include an open discussion with a focus on analyzing the impact of these activities in the classroom.

More info

https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/DKARDU/how-to-make-led-face-mask-a3c89

Workshop Requirements

Participants need to bring their personal computers.;

Suitable for beginners.

We will provide

Power bank

Arduino

USB micro

8x8 led matrix

Cables F/M -M/M - F/F

Microphone

How

15 attendants divided into 5-6 teams.

Agenda

15’ Introduction to Plan C and post pandemics

30’ Introduction to Arduino

45' Building electronics and coding interactive program

30' Learning soldering skills to assemble sensors

40’ Fabricating the mask and testing the program

20’ Reflections & Discussion

About the Facilitators

Gabriele Ermacora，obtained a PhD in Human Robot Interaction from Polytechnic of Turin (Italy) in 2016. Being passionate about education and innovation, he started in 2015 HotBlack Robotics as an Ed-tech company. Currently, he is working as a postdoc researcher at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, with a focus on developing robotic self-driving algorithms. He is the founder of the Chinese branch of Hackability, a project that aims at empowering people with disabilities through technology.

Jiji Yu， is an artist and designer based in Shanghai. After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design (USA) in 2017, she has been making wearable electronics such as LED clothing, LED nails, and LED masks. She has showcased her works both in China and the US, including X Museum (Beijing, 2020), Studio Gallery (Shanghai, 2020), and Postmasters Gallery (New York, 2018). Currently, she is learning about parametric design and experimenting with algorithmic patterns superimposed with interactive hardware.

Co-organized with

Supported by

(中文) CAC Atelier | 周蓬岸：ASCII图像创作

cacFriday April 23rd, 2021Friday April 23rd, 2021

Sorry, this entry is only available in 中文.

CAC Atelier 08 | The Digital Self

cacThursday January 24th, 2019Friday January 25th, 2019

Date:
2019.01.13 (Sunday)

Time:
11am – 3pm

Facilitator:
Jon c. Flint, Aline Martinez Santos; David Erhun (assisting with the facilitation)

Venue:
Chronus Art Center

Language:
English (with supporting materials in Chinese)

Admission Fee
Workshop 200 RMB
CAC Membership 160 RMB
Student 100 RMB

Join CAC Membership today to enjoy 20% discount.

*Only 10 seats available.

Co-organized by Chronus Art Center (CAC), Extrart Base and thecamp, a new innovation campus in the south of France dedicated to exploring emerging technologies and social innovation, the workshop “The Digital Self” is an opportunity to reflect on the idea of self-identity in the digital age. On January 12, thecamp will bring a talk to Extrart Base, going into details of Cached, a project emerged out of the creative residency at thecamp, and exploring some of the issues of "Digital Self" in further depth. ( click here for more info)

The Digital Self is a term used to talk about digital identity, traces and footprints online. It is an online approximation of who you are as a person and can be better understood by the use of complex algorithms which interpret your data and online activity. Your Digital Self is becoming increasingly important. As we find technology taking over every aspect of our lives, the way that we present ourselves online can have a dramatic impact on our everyday life. It is how we appear to others and how others appear to us on the internet. It has become more and more difficult to separate online and offline.

The workshop will be divided into two parts. Part one will explore how the ‘digital self’ is built and how it is used. Part two is a hands on workshop where participants will design and prototype ideas tackling data. It is a combination of presentation, hands on activity and discussion which will be delivered in English with supporting materials in Chinese.

System Requirements and Resources Provided

Please bring your own laptop.

PART I

Presentation and Introductions (30m)
Introduction of workshop facilitators and short introduction of all participants.

Presentation by Aline and Jon about the key topics relevant to the workshop:

i. What are psychometrics?

ii. What is the digital self? A quick explanation of this term, and how it is made from social media clicks/posts to sharing information online.

iii. What personality computing is and how it is being used.

Writing activity – Text tuned to how you post on social media (30m)

Participants will answer several timed questions which will be displayed on screen (in English/Chinese). Participants will be required to use a text-editor on their computer to answer these questions.

Text will be transmitted to Aline and Jon for analysis by IBM Watson algorithm. Results will be received and explained to each participant.

How the Digital Self is built from this text and your analysis (15m)

A brief explanation of how the algorithm works, what IBM Watson does to analyse your personality based on text, and some of the key words and language it looks for to determine who you are.

Editing keywords from this text (15m)
Demonstration of how editing certain keywords can dramatically change the results of your ‘personality’ analysis by IBM Watson.
Allow participants to test manipulation of their own ‘personality’ through editing the text they wrote.

- Lunch Break -

PART II

Ideation Activity (10m)
Begin with a summary of Part I. Now that we know we can change our ‘Digital Self’, can we imagine other alternative solutions?
Using ideation cards provided, participants will define in groups what they design.

Prototyping Activity (40m)

Based on the design brief they have received from the ideation cards, participants will prototype their solutions. They will be given a mix of physical 3D objects and 2D equipment to help realise their ideas.

Presentation of Solutions (20m)

Each group will present the design brief they had and the solution they prototyped.

Wrap Up (20m)

Discussion and feedback around the theme of the workshop.

About the Facilitators

Aline Martinez Santos

Aline is an experienced multidisciplinary designer from Brazil with a preference for managing cross-disciplinary teams. She has specialised in the integration of smart digital technology into fashion and explored the notion of ‘interactive costumes’. Aline has most recently completed a collaborative residency programme at thecamp in Aix en Provence where she has worked on two distinct projects: an interactive artistic installation questioning the data made available through social media platforms; and another looking to reunite cultures and communities in the context of the present-day refugee crisis through cleverly designed toolkits and workshops.

Jon c. Flint

Jon is a designer with a hands on approach to thinking and making. His work has been showcased in galleries such as the V&A and Vitra, to the back of pushchairs and bikes on the streets of London. He has given various talks on topics relating to the criticality of making, as part of 2016 MCE conference in Warsaw, to Maker Assembly Sheffield and has conceived and led several hands-on drone making workshops. He was selected to be one of the delegates for the ‘Living research 2018’ programme by The British Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, exploring maker culture in China. Jon is a co-founder of VJFstudio with Vytas Jankauskas the two met working as senior designers at Superflux studio in London. They are undertaking a residency at thecamp, Aix-en-Provence, and are permanent residents at the Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed, Bristol.

David Erhun

With an eclectic mix of experiences behind him, David is an International Project Manager and global talent scout for thecamp, a new campus dedicated to supporting social innovation and emerging technology in the South of France. Fascinated by art, science, technology and design, he joined thecamp through its HIVE creative collaborative residency in 2017 and was among the first to experience life on thecamp’s experimental campus. He’s now on a global hunt for the world’s most promising young talent, and helping to build the international profile of thecamp through international partnerships with global institutions. With thecamp positioning itself as a hub for Innovation, he’s on the lookout for innovative ventures utilizing technology for positive impact.

About <CAC_Atelier>

CAC Atelier will be a monthly series of workshops to introduce the basics of media creation technology to participants of all ages with no prior experience. It will cover programming, web design, music production, video-game development, and even gadget exploration. CAC Atelier will not only offer cutting edge technological knowledge to curious participants, but it will also offer a hands-on and innovative experience.

About Hive by thecamp

thecamp is a place where talents from all over the world can get training, inspire each other and work on projects to develop solutions for an exciting and optimistic future. thecamp's challenge is to find new approaches to universal issues, and to aggregate people and projects driven by the same will and excitement for the future we’re all responsible for!

Organized by thecamp, Hive is a 6-month residency program hosting 20 artists and creators from all over the world. This team of young creatives form a collaborative expedition to explore and hack the future, developing concrete solutions applied to universal issues. Energy, oceans, mobility, education, quality of life… are the kind of challenges.

https://thecamp.fr/

CAC Atelier 06 | Visual Programming Language: Max/MSP/Jitter and Basics of Audio-Visual Interactions

cacThursday January 24th, 2019Friday January 25th, 2019

Date:
2018.12.01 (Saturday)

Time:
11am – 5pm

Workshop Leader:
HAN Han (GOOOOOSE)

Venue:
Chronus Art Center (No.18, No.50 Mo Gan Shan Rd, Shanghai)

Admission Fee
Workshop 200 RMB
CAC Membership 120 RMB
Student 100 RMB

Join CAC Membership today to enjoy 40% discount.

*Only 30 seats available, please R.S.V.P.

Max/MSP is a visual programing language for creative audio and media practices. Its connectivity and adaptability allow the software to be widely applied to creative recording, media performance and art installation. The versatile and agile program allows users to connect several building-blocks that will act as a unified program and provides a development environment for creative experiments.

Since its creation in the 1990s, Max/MSP has evolved into a sophisticated development environment for multimedia creation, in which Max processes logic and algorithms while MSP controls the audio signal frequency. Another sub-environment named Jitter focuses on video production. In the workshop, HAN Han will introduce these three programs and share his experience using Max/MSP/Jitter for audio-visual performance since 2010. The workshop offers attendees an entrée to the world of personalized audio-visual programming.

11.00 – 12.40

Introduction of the visualized programming environment, Max, and the video production sub-environment

Jitter programming basics

12.40 – 13.30

Break

13.30 – 15.00

Basics of audio-visual interactions:
The three basic elements of sound
Midi, tempo and rhythm
Is real-time audio-visual interaction possible?
Latency

15.00 – 16.30

Practical design of a simple audio-visual system through Max/MSP/Jitter with the instructor's guidance

16.30 – 17.00

Introduction of "Sequencer Electronics"

Q&A session

System Requirements and Resources Provided

This workshop is devised for the participants with no prior knowledge of Max/MSP.

Please bring your own laptop (with MacOS in recommended) and with Max or Max free trial version (https://cycling74.com/) installed before the workshop.

Attendees who require assistance with software installation should arrive 20 minutes early.

Participants will be provided with a bottle of free coffee from SAY COFFEE COLD BREW.

About Workshop Leader

GOOOOOSE is the side project of Han Han, frontman of one of China's most well-known experimental-rock/electronica band "Duck Fight Goose" and also ownerof the experimental record label Miniless Recordings. His multi-instrumental approach of making music usually leads the audience into a place where ambient soundscape, heavily synthesized texture and syncopated rhythms find their harmony, yet still fighting with each other sometimes. Apart from making music, HAN Han is also a visual artist and software developer. GOOOOOSE is more like a spiritual cave of Han Han, he currently lives in Shanghai. There are 5 Os.

Since 2012, Han Han started to perform in various venues in Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Estonia, France and United States, including Haus der Kulturen der Welt and CTM festival in Berlin, Cite De La Musique in Paris and SXSW festival in Austin. As a music producer/composer/Audio-Visual artist, he also participated several art projects since 2017, such as a full audiovisual live performance for Zhang Ding's work Vortex, composing music pieces for Andrey Boleslavsky's VR works at CAC art center, Designer Zhang Da (Boundless), Wang Hao Min (Zuczug, WHM)'s 2018 spring fashion show(original music for full show). He also produced indie band Late Trouble's first album. In the same year, he released debut full-length album They and received positive reviews from several places including Japanese media Music Magazine.

At the beginning of 2018, Han Han was invited to CTM festival in Berlin to perform. He will release several new EPs under D-force Beijing, NLS records from London/Hongkong and Ante-Rasa from Belgium. His artwork THEY 2.0 will also be exhibited in Goethe-Institut in Beijing 798 from September 1st to October 14th in 2018.

活动全程将提供冷萃咖啡点亮智慧与能量

感谢“SAY COFFEE 冷萃咖啡”的慷慨支持

Free cold brew will be provided during the event to spark intelligence and energy.
Special thanks to SAY COFFEE COLD BREW for its generosity.

CAC Atelier 06 | Visual Programming Language Max/MSP and Synthesizer Basics

cacTuesday January 22nd, 2019Friday January 25th, 2019

Date:
2018.10.06

Time:
11:00 – 17:00

Workshop Leader:
WANG Changcun (AYRTBH)

Venue:
Chronus Art Center

Admission Fee
Workshop 200 RMB
CAC Membership 120 RMB
Student 100 RMB

Join CAC Membership today to enjoy 40% discount.

*Only 20 seats available, please R.S.V.P.

In the workshop, musician WANG Changcun (AYRTBH) will start by introducing the graphical programming environment and programming basics of MAX and then explain the related theory and basic applications of the software and electronic synthesizers. Wang will then work with the workshop participants to build a mono synthesizer with Max/MSP. By the end of the workshop, attendees will complete a collaborative synthesizer performance with the Open Sound Control via LAN (Local Area Network).

/////// Schedule //////////////////////////////////

11:00 – 13:40

Brief introduction of Max’s graphical media programming environment

The programming basics of MAX

MSP sound synthesizing basics

12:40 – 13:30

Break

13:30 – 14:30

Electronic synthesizer basics:
Oscillator
Filters
Envelope
LFO
Sequencer

14:30 – 16:30

Apply MAX/MSP to build a mono synthesizer
Learn more about OSC (Open Sound Control)*
*OSC is a protocol for communication among computers, sound synthesizers and other multimedia devices that is optimized for modern networking technology.

16:30 – 17:00

Introduce “Sequencer Electronics”

Collaborative synthesizer performance with OSC through LAN

System Requirements and Resources Provided

This workshop is devised for the participants with no prior knowledge of Max/MSP.

Please bring your own laptop (with MacOS in recommended) and with Max or Max free trial version (https://cycling74.com/) installed before the workshop.

Attendees who require assistance with software installation should arrive 20 minutes early.

Participants will be provided with a bottle of free coffee from SAY COFFEE COLD BREW.

About Workshop Leader

WANG Changcun (AYRTBH) works on electronic music, computer music, software and internet art.

Sequencer Electronics is a sound software label established by Gooooose (HAN Han) and AYRTBH, as well as the name of their music group that produces electronic music improvisation with their own software.

About <CAC_Atelier>

活动全程将提供冷萃咖啡点亮智慧与能量

感谢“SAY COFFEE 冷萃咖啡”的慷慨支持

Free cold brew will be provided during the event to spark intelligence and energy.
Special thanks to SAY COFFEE COLD BREW for its generosity.

CAC Atelier | Sonological Ecology —— a workshop on acoustic ecology and sound theory basics

cacTuesday January 22nd, 2019Thursday January 24th, 2019

Date:
2018.9.23

Time:
11.00 – 16.00

Venue:
Chronus Art Center (Building 18, No.50 Moganshan Rd)

Language:
English

Event Ticket
Workshop 150
CAC Member 90

Join CAC Membership to enjoy 40% off!

*Only 30 seats available, R.S.V.P

How to listen to the sonic landscape? What does it tell us about our environment, and what does that mean to us?

On September 23, Chronus Art Center (CAC) will host an Open Studio event of current Research and Creation Fellowship artist Mileece.

Starting with the artist talk, Mileece will introduce the principles of acoustic ecology, the concept of SoundWalks and Phonography and generally explore the sonic relationship between living organisms and their environment. She will lead an open discussion covering the basic wave theory, audiology, bioacoustics and what can we find out about an area simply by way of its acoustic ecology. How does the physical environment inform the acoustic environment, and help or hinder the sonic communication between biological organisms? How do the sounds we hear make us feel?

After the artist talk, Mileece will also guide the attendees on a SoundWalk through M50 and surroundings to put the theory in practice and then create a SoundMap with the artist.

About the Artist

Mileece is a sonic artist, composer, interactive ecology designer and clean-energy ambassador. She has helped pioneer the modern evolution of plant biofeedback, presenting PiP, her custom coded synths and hardware for plant bio-data sonification at an array of prestigious museums (MoMA, NYC), festivals (BHIF Festival, Bhutan), and venues (Kew Gardens, London). Her work in immersive installations, sonic design and composition, interactive sculptures, as well as original products, materials and instruments, are central to a series of highly lauded projects, including the Miracle Gro “Grow Something Greater” campaign, and her Sonic Garden installation for Sonos Studios.

As a composer and recording artist, her debut work Formations was critically acclaimed internationally, and heralded by the BBC as an “outstanding release, real musical science.” Her message of 'promoting ecology through technology and the arts’ guides her roles as Creative and Technical Director to several institutional collaborators and brands.

Currently, she is developing zero energy, network-based urban wilderness sanctuaries inside technologically augmented biodomes to help balance our modern lives with the needs and benefits of the biosphere.

About Mileece's project Bio-Semiotics AI for the Research/Creation Fellowship

活动全程将提供冷萃咖啡点亮智慧与能量

感谢“SAY COFFEE 冷萃咖啡”的慷慨支持

Free cold brew will be provided during the event to spark intelligence and energy.
Special thanks to SAY COFFEE COLD BREW for its generosity.

Escape Pod for the End of Days —— A Thought Experiment on Virtuality and Reality

cacWednesday August 1st, 2018Thursday August 9th, 2018

Workshop Leader:
CHEN Baoyang

Language:
Chinese

Date:
04/08/2018

Time:
11am – 5pm

Location:
Chronus Art Center (No.18 Bldg, No.50 Mo Gan Shan Rd)

Event Ticket
Workshop 200
CAC Member 120
Student 100

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*Only 12 seats available, R.S.V.P

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Imagin...

When you wake up in an escape pod, you want to send a warning to the future, but you’ve forgotten how to signal danger......

Once rapid technological developments are made into a product, their internal logic is inevitably subsumed by commercial rhetoric, which creates a kind of black box. The artist’s role is not to develop new technology, nor is it to merely supplement that technology. This workshop’s dual orientation encompasses ways of thinking about virtuality and reality by learning about the technology of virtual reality (xR: AR, VR, MR) and its practical application using the interface Unity, as well as experiencing and analyzing how such artistic practice provokes real-time, bodily “hallucinations.”

This workshop is designed for those with no prior knowledge and will thoroughly explore virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality and seek the heterogeneity and homogeneity among them. At the same time, we will compare the VR technology with traditional technology and study the differences behind various xR platforms. Each participant will design a xR-based Escape Pod developed from their own imagination and the sci-fi storyline provided in the workshop and then create it using Unity.

11：00 – 13：00

Introduction:“Technology as Author,” and basic formations of technological ways of thinking

Technical analysis, comparison and study of the differences behind various xR platforms

(Break)

14：00 – 17：00

Design the elements of the Escape Pod

Producing the pod with Unity

Pod construction:

I. Importing the 3D model into Unity and adding materials

II. Controlling light within Unity

Changing the World:

Controlling the movement of characters

Virtualizing the Scene:

Importing scenes from Unity into StreamVR and adjusting it to accommodate VR optics.

The End of Days Escape Pod takes off!

System Requirements

Please bring a laptop. MacBook Pro or gaming laptop is recommended.

About the Workshop Leader

CHEN Baoyang (b. 1989) is an artist who works at the intersection of art and technology. He graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree in 2016. Chen's artistic practice originates from his thinking that technology is more than just a way of making art and can now be seen as an artistic collaborator. He often hacks technology by using it in ways other than its intended commercial applications, which coincide with and further his creative thinking. He also writes about "Technology as Author." By synthesizing our collective experience with ontological and ethical questions surrounding technology, he examines the boundary between us, machine, and beyond, between perceptual and embodied space. His working tools include self-coded algorithms and innovative technics, which can create extremely chaotic surfaces; nevertheless, a certain order emerges from the effortlessness with which they are constructed and remains there. He uses computational formulae to create new forms based on pre-existing images. In his work, he continually evokes the concept of the “impossibility of improvisation” – variation arises from standardization, and this has been essential to his creative thinking and practice.

His solo exhibitions include Do Androids Dream of Electric Cows (Gallery Yang, Beijing, China, 2017) and The Framework (Cloud Gallery, New York, USA, 2016). He has participated in group exhibitions at a number of institutions and galleries, including Times Art Museum (Beijing, China), the Riverside Museum (Beijing, China), the Power Station of Art (Shanghai, China), the BRIC (New York, USA), The Dedalus Foundation (New York, USA), OpenHand OpenSpace (London, England), Liu Haisu Art Museum (Shanghai, China), Los Angles Center for Digital Art (Los Angles, USA), Wuhan Art Museum (Wuhan, China), National Art Museum of China (Beijing, China), Museum of China Academy of Art (Hangzhou, China), Agora Gallery (New York, USA), Gallerie Huit (Arles, France), Chambers Fine Art (Chelsea, New York, USA), and Wook Choi Gallery (New York, USA).

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